If You Like Lee Child

Lee Child writes compulsively readable moral dramas that feature fine writing, complex plots, relentless pacing, and an engaging loner hero. Like the medieval knight errant or the Western hero, Child's Jack Reacher rides into town bringing justice accompanied by the requisite violent gun play before he leaves without a trace. Try these similarly suspenseful and action-filled books.
 

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1. The deserter: a novel

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Author:
DeMille, Nelson
Series:
Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"A taut, psychologically suspenseful military thriller ... about two army investigators on the hunt in Venezuela for an army deserter who might know too much about a secret Pentagon operation"--

2. Don't let go

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Author:
Coben, Harlan, 1962-
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon 'Nap' Dumas hasn't been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo's girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks-- and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke up with him and disappeared without explanation. For fifteen years, Nap has been searching, both for Maura and for the real reason behind his brother's death. And now, it looks as though...

3. The monkey's raincoat

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Author:
Crais, Robert
Series:
Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
Vietnam veteran Elvis Cole, working as a private investigator in Los Angeles, becomes caught up in a web of deceit, drugs, and murder when he is hired to find a missing Hollywood agent who has disappeared along with his young son. "Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. Private Eye.... He quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He's a literate, wisecracking Vietnam vet who is determined to never grow up. When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-Deco office,...